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Post by doc on Jul 6, 2017 13:12:38 GMT
Let's see how many you can guess. #1 is pretty easy but there are a few surprises on the list and a couple omissions that I would have included. Sorry Hen, but there's no mention of anything bluegrass related! (August 31 can't get here fast enough!)
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 6, 2017 13:57:19 GMT
A lot depends upon who compiled the list, and how "popular music" is defined. You could start with Mozart! You could go back to Scott Joplin and the release of Maple Leaf Rag in 1899, which remains well known and popular today: youtu.be/pMAtL7n_-rcThe list should include Robert Johnson, an itinerant musician in the mid-1930s, who some consider to be the father of rock & roll. Johnson was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in its first year, and is still regarded as one of the greatest guitarists ever: youtu.be/Yd60nI4sa9ALes Paul is still revered, and would have to be included. His inventions and refinements in overdubbing, multitrack recording, tape delay and phasing effects, etc. contributed enormously to popular music over the decades. The Les Paul Gibson guitars are legendary. He and his wife, Mary Ford, had a highly popular TV show: youtu.be/NkGf1GHAxhE
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Post by doc on Jul 6, 2017 14:27:00 GMT
Interesting you say Mozart - he isn't on the list but another classical icon is. And I should add that the list actually is the most 'important moments' in popular music history. Almost all are from the 1950's on....
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Post by tigercpa on Jul 6, 2017 15:01:08 GMT
Interesting you say Mozart - he isn't on the list but another classical icon is. And I should add that the list actually is the most 'important moments' in popular music history. Almost all are from the 1950's on.... Given the verbiage change - death of Elvis?
The Beatles / Ed Sullivan?
Death of John Lennon?
Woodstock and/or Jimi Hendrix at Woodsttock?
MTV's first video?
Any of those make the list?
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 6, 2017 15:26:04 GMT
There are several things technology-wise, as opposed to people and events, such as the introduction of the 45 rpm record, audio cassettes, CDs and digital downloads. The opening of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. The numerous advancements in musical instruments and sound recording technology.
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Post by Bevo on Jul 6, 2017 15:28:26 GMT
The release of MJ's "Thriller" album.
Maybe, also Madonna's "Material Girl"
Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner
Queen's release of Night at the Opera
The Eagles playing the Hollywood Bowl
The invention of the Ipod
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Post by rupturedduck on Jul 6, 2017 15:44:01 GMT
The 1937/38 Carnagie Hall Benny Goodman jazz concert with many famous side men.IT was a risky venture for it's day as swing was just getting noticed,it was a huge success,i got the album and tape.
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Post by Hero on Jul 6, 2017 16:04:57 GMT
Elvis on Ed Sullivan's Show.
Beatles ditto
Death of John Lennon.
Death of Micheal Jackson.
Beatles breakup
Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Vales, killed in a plane crash that Waylon Jennings was supposed to be aboard.
Woodstock
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Post by doc on Jul 6, 2017 17:32:02 GMT
A pretty good start! If you mentioned one of the appropriate artists, I'll give it to you.
#6 is Michael Jackson doing the Moonwalk on Motown's 25th anniversary show. (Performing Billie Jean)
#5 is Queen's performance at Wembley Stadium in 1985 during the Farm Aid concert. (Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions)
#3 is Elvis performing Hound Dog on the Milton Berle Show.
#2 is Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, specifically - playing the Star-Spangled Banner
#1 is The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, February 9, 1964.
Deaths were omitted from the list. I thought the launch of MTV would be on the list but MTV is represented on the list by a particular show.
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Post by doc on Jul 6, 2017 19:12:00 GMT
Hints to the others...
#10. Debut of a genre that has grown in popularity to this day....
#9. A classical masterpiece by s deaf composer
#8. A particular band's appearance on MTV's Unplugged...
#7. A prison concert....
#4. A folk legend goes electric....
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Post by Hero on Jul 6, 2017 20:00:37 GMT
7 Johnny Cash 8 Nirvana-Curt Cobain 10 Rap/HipHop
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 6, 2017 20:28:28 GMT
It seems that the list is of the most significant performances, rather than of the most important moments.
Big difference. Each is a judgment call.
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Post by tigercpa on Jul 6, 2017 20:30:22 GMT
Hints to the others... #10. Debut of a genre that has grown in popularity to this day.... #9. A classical masterpiece by s deaf composer #8. A particular band's appearance on MTV's Unplugged... #7. A prison concert.... #4. A folk legend goes electric.... 10 - Rap
9 - Beethoven's fifth
8 - Cobain, et al
7 - ?
4 - Muddy Waters invented electricity
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Post by doc on Jul 6, 2017 22:06:55 GMT
Pretty much got 'em...
#10 - The debut of Rappers Delight by the Sugarhill Gang on Billboards Top 40 list, the first rap/hip hop song to make the charts.
#9 - The premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
#7 - Johnny Cash plays Walk the Line at Folsom County Prison.
# 4 - Bob Dylan goes electric at Newport Music Festival which basically signaled the end of the folk music era.
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Post by Bevo on Jul 6, 2017 23:25:26 GMT
Pretty much got 'em... #10 - The debut of Rappers Delight by the Sugarhill Gang on Billboards Top 40 list, the first rap/hip hop song to make the charts. #9 - The premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna. #7 - Johnny Cash plays Walk the Line at Folsom County Prison. # 4 - Bob Dylan goes electric at Newport Music Festival which basically signaled the end of the folk music era. Damnit Jim! You never gave me a chance. Beethoven directing the 9th Symphony... Which he NEVER heard, and is the BEST piece of music ever written, was THE #1 moment in ALL of music history, bar none.... I had it. I had Johnny Cash's prison concert too... I agree on Rappers Delight, Loved it when it came out. Changed music.
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